The napalm bombing of Japanese cities remains far less notorious than the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, even ...

The nuclear bombing of Japan in 1945 is widely credited with hastening the end of the Second World War. Even if true, was it ...

Historian Richard Overy explains how the US firebombing of Japanese cities in 1945 killed more civilians than Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined – and why it has been largely forgotten ...

Japan’s capitulation was expected, and US bomber crews hadn’t flown for five days ... It never came, and late on the night of August 14, 1945, the last fire raid of World War II began. Kazue Hojo was ...

Eighty years ago this month, the United States dropped nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ushering in the Atomic Age and ...

The country’s postwar history was a remarkable story of national rebirth. Now the assumptions that underpinned the last 80 ...

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the first use of a nuclear weapon, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima near the end ...

Wataru Satano, son of executioner Osamu Satano, speaks virtually during a ceremony honoring U.S. bomber crews from World War II at Aburayama Kannon Temple in Fukuoka, Japan, June 20, 2025.